Ax-poll.



PATENIE'D JULY 17 C. A. BENTON.

AX POLL.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 1. 190a.

UNITED STATES PATENT ornioil.

AX-POLL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 1'7, 1906.

Application filed March 1, 1906. Serial No. 303,727-

TO all 1071/0712 it may concern.

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. BENTON, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Eaton Rapids, in the county of Eaton and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ax- Polls, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in ax-polls; and it has for an object to so construct a poll that the eye thereof will contain novel means for retaining the helve or handle a ainst displacement.

This object is attained by forming within the eye four concavities to which a handle will conform when the usual wedge is driven within the end thereof.

It is also an object of the invention to construct an ax-poll the contour of which in cross section approximately midway its length is oval. This configuration ermits the ax to dislodge a chip with little i' iiction.

It is also an object of this invention to con struct an ax-poll having a body of soft steel to which is welded a cutting-blade of hard steel.

Furthermore, it is an object of this invention to provide an ax-poll the body of which is pressed into shape by means of a drophammer and dies of proper character.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the details of construction and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be had to the accompanying drawings,forming part of this specification, wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, in which Figure 1 illustrates a perspective of a pressed blank employed in making a doubleedge poll. Fig. 2 is a view illustrating a single-edge poll. Fig. 3 is a viewof a singleedge poll assembled. Fig. 4 is a view in perspective of a double poll assembled.

In manufacturing the poll a blank A of soft steel is placed beneath a drop-hammer and within suitable dies. In all the types the blank is pressed to form an eye when doubled on itself, andwithin the recesses producing the eye are pressed the concavities 1, hawing their curves extendin transversely of the blank. In producing the concavities shoulders A are formed having edges that will cut into the ax-handle when it is applied, and these shoulders will further serve as a retaining means for the handle and prevent twisting of the ax thereon. The sides of the poll when the blank is assembled taper gradually toward the lower end from a point approximately centrally of the eye. This will produce an ax after the steel cutting-blade is applied with plenty of fullness through the center and makes an ax well balanced. The poll is also approximately oval-shaped in cross-section. This configuration, together with the fullness of the ax at its center, will permit the ax to throw a chip with very little friction.

In manufacturing a single-edge poll, as shown in Fig. 2, the blank is pressed into the shape shown, after which the opposite side sections 3 4 are bent to contact one with the other and are welded, after which the steel cutting-blade is welded to the poll. In finishing the poll it is but necessary to grind the steel cutting-blade, as the remainder of the ax is completed by the dies. The same operation applies to a double-blade ax, except that the blank is so reduced intermediate its length that it can be bent at said reduced portion 4. It is the purpose of the invention that the welding of the contacting faces of the poll-blank and the steel cutting-blades be simultaneous.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, an axpoll consisting of a strip of metal having two recesses pressed therein adapted to register and form an eye when the said strip is doubled on itself, the said recessed portions forming an eye having shoulders formed therein extending transversely of the strip and longitudinall of the eye when the blank is folded, the sai recesses having transversely-concaved depressions pressed therein extending from the shoulders and merging with the surfaces of the said recesses, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses, this 20th day of February, 1906.

CHARLES A. BENTON.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH B. HENDER, E. S. HARRIs. 

